FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Sep 20 20:00:47 UTC 2006


On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Tomas Lanik wrote:

> hi,
> I am unable to boot FC6T3 x86-64... on (AMD64X2, 4GB DDR2, SATA II, Asus 
> M2N-E)
> The initrd image is missing in  /boot directory.
> I have tried to fix the issue by creating initrd image as suggested by alan 
> <alan clueserver org>:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, sean wrote:
>
>
>  I've been unsuccessful in installing t3 from dvd on a standard intel
>  x86-64 chipset box. I think the problem is that I have one partition
>  ( not root ) that's lvm. I asssume this will all be fixed for t4.
>  Has anybody figured out how to install before then?
> Yep.  I posted it earlier.
>
>
> After you do the install, boot with the "rescue option" on the install dvd.
>
> When you get a prompt:
>
> chroot /mnt/sysmount
> cd /boot
> mkinitrd --image-version --nocompress initrd `uname -r`
>
> Then add this line to the /etc/grub.conf entry:
> initrd /initrd-<kernelversion>
>
> save, sync and reboot.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> with following result:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> root(hd0,0)
> FileSystem Type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6 ro root=/dev/basevg/rootlv rhgb quiet
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x20865b]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
> [Linux-initrd @ 0xdf916000, 0x5b9800 bytes]
>
> Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
> Press any key to continue...
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas how to make FC6T3 boot?

Have you tried without the "--nocompress" option?

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